6th Workshop of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

Session

RHIC 2

Apr 8, 2015, 4:00 PM

Baltimore, MD

Conveners

RHIC 2

• Swagato Mukherjee (Brookhaven Natl Lab)

72. Heavy-Flavor Interactions in Medium

Prof. Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

4/8/15, 4:00 PM

invited talk

We discuss how heavy-flavor particles can be utilized to probe hot and dense QCD matter as produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Toward this end, we introduce a thermodynamic T-matrix formalism to describe the in-medium properties of both open- and hidden-flavor particles. We report on recent progress on extracting a suitable in-medium potential from the in-medium heavy-quark free...

17. Bottomonia production in AA collisions

Dr Michael Strickland (Kent State University)

4/8/15, 4:30 PM

invited talk

I will discuss suppression of bottomonia production in relativistic heavy ion collisions due to creation of a short-lived quark gluon plasma (QGP). The suppression of these states is a "smoking gun" for the creation of the QGP since cold nuclear matter effects on bottomonia production at central rapidities are quite small. I will also highlight the fact that, due to their large masses, these...

28. The free energy and entropy of a heavy quark pair in the quark-gluon plasma

Prof. DMITRI KHARZEEV (Stony Brook University and BNL)

4/8/15, 5:00 PM

invited talk

Lattice QCD indicates a large amount of entropy associated with the heavy quark-antiquark pair immersed in the quark-gluon plasma. We argue that the increase of this entropy as a function of the inter-quark distance gives rise to an entropic force that can be very effective in dissociating the bound quarkonium states. In addition, the lattice data show a very sharp peak in the heavy...